unsteady as an adjective: - 1
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unsteady
adjective
1 unsteady
Subject to change or variation.
Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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Roget 605:
irresolute,
infirm of purpose,
double-minded,
half-hearted;
undecided,
unresolved,
undetermined;
shilly-shally;
fidgety,
tremulous;
hesitating
etc.
v.;
off one's balance;
at a loss
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
vacillating
etc.
v.;
unsteady
etc.
(changeable)
149;
unsteadfast†,
fickle,
without ballast;
capricious
etc.
608;
volatile,
frothy;
light,
lightsome,
light-minded;
giddy;
fast and loose.
weak,
feeble-minded,
frail;
timid,
wimpish,
wimpy
etc.
860;
cowardly
etc.
862;
dough-faced [U.S.];
facile;
pliant
etc.
(soft)
324;
unable to say 'no',
easy-going revocable,
reversible.
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Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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2 unsteady
Not firmly or solidly positioned:
— Climbing carefully up the unsteady ladder.
synonym: unfirm.
Moby thesaurus: adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, broken, canted, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, choppy, dancing, dangerous, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doddering, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, erose, erratic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flickering, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, fluttering, fluttery, freakish, giddy, groggy, guttering, halting, hazardous, heeling, herky-jerky, heteroclite, ill-balanced, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, leaning, listing, lopsided, lurching, mazy, mercurial, mobile, moody, motley, moving, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, off-balance, overbalanced, patchy, perilous, pluralistic, precarious, protean, provisional, ragged, rambling, ramshackle, restless, ricketish, rickety, risky, rocky, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, slippery, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty, sputtering, sputtery, staggering, teetering, teetery, temporary, tentative, ticklish, top-heavy, tottering, tottery, treacherous, tumbledown, unaccountable, unbalanced, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfaithworthy, unfixed, unhealthy, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsafe, unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsubstantial, unsure, unsystematic, untrustworthy, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly ... show more.
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